#feature • #anime • #manga

A Look Into How the Pros Make Anime & Manga Panel at Anime Expo

Amuse Creative Studio Presents: How the Pros Make Anime & Manga was a featured panel at Anime Expo 2025. It hosted Rei Hebiguchi, manga editor at Weekly Shonen Champion; Shinobu Seguchi, manga artist known for Prisoner Riku; and Kazuhiro Nishikawa, founder and CEO of DandeLion Animation Studio.

Tamara Lazic • July 20

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The Global Producer: Making Animation Across Borders at Anime Expo 2025

This year's Anime Expo hosted a panel dubbed The Global Producer: Making Animation Across Borders, dedicated to the realities and challenges of modern anime production. The featured panelists (listed below) shared their experiences working in the Japanese animation industry, while especially focusing on working in Japan as foreigners.

Tamara Lazic • July 17

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Behind the Scenes of New The Ghost in the Shell at Anime Expo 2025

Anime Expo 2025 brought together staff of the upcoming Science SARU's The Ghost in the Shell anime. The new adaptation of Masamune Shirow's work is scheduled to premiere in 2026.

Tamara Lazic • July 07

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Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: June

We take a look at the anime production notes for June of 2025. This month marks the end of the Spring 2025 anime season.

Sarca • July 01

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Revisiting the Works of Yasuomi Umetsu

Yasuomi Umetsu (梅津泰臣) is one of the most identifiable animators still working in the anime industry. His art style, specifically, has been uniquely identifiable since the 1980s; and while it developed over the course of nearly two decades into the amalgamation of semi-realistic qualities with unique world and fashion design

Sarca • June 26

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Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: May

The following is a list of episodes that have premiered during the Spring 2025 anime season between May 1 and May 31. The main production studio(s) are listed in parentheses next to the title of the work. Each episode is then listed showing which studio(s) produced it, either

Sarca • June 02

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The Origin of SHAFT: Hiroshi Wakao

Do you know who Hiroshi Wakao (若尾博司) is? Probably not, after all: he retired as president of SHAFT in 2004 before the company's modern brand had been established. Wakao was the first president and founder of the studio, which has existed since long before the era of Akiyuki Shinbo's...

Sarca • May 24

#feature • #recommendation • #gaming

A Quick R.E.P.O. Introduction: Horrifically Fun

The hit game R.E.P.O. has taken the gaming community by storm with a masterful combination of fear, joy, and love of derpy-looking robots. Many streamers, including those from the Vtuber and even gacha communities, have been showing off their repossession and hoarding skills by storm, inspiring feelings

Ellyn Sweetman • May 06

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Why Anime Fans Should Care About Trump's Movie Tariffs

President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced potential tariffs for movies made outside of the US. Could this affect anime scene? Of course it could and here is how and why YOU should care.

Tamara Lazic • May 05

#feature • #manhwa • #webtoon

Webtoon Releases Recap in April 2025

Check out our monthly recap of official English releases of webtoons on WEBTOON, Tapas, Lezhin, and more!

Kim Pham • May 01

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Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: April

The following is a list of episodes that have premiered during the Spring 2025 anime season between April 1 and April 30. The main production studio(s) are listed in parentheses next to the title of the work. Each episode is then listed showing which studio(s) produced it, either

Sarca • May 01

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What Does Akiyuki Shinbo Even Do?

Whenever you watch a SHAFT anime, you may be wondering who Akiyuki Shinbo is or what exactly it is that he does. I'm here to bring the answers.

Sarca • April 24

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All the References in The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Cour 2 Opening

All the references (and spoilers) in the second opening of The Apothecary Diaries Season 2. The opening features “Kusushiki” by Mrs. GREEN APPLE as the theme song.

Carla Bianca Carreon • April 22

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Attack on Titan: The Last Attack and Final Chapters Specials Differences

We take a look at all the differences and edits in Attack on Titan: The Last Attack movie and compare them to the TV version of Attack on Titan: THE FINAL CHAPTERS Specials.

Tamara Lazic • April 21

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Seiyu to Yoasobi 2025 Reveals Hosts, Broadcast Details

The 2025 season of Abema's Seiyu to Yoasobi variety show begins with voice actor announcements.

Demelza Ward • April 21

A Look Into How the Pros Make Anime & Manga Panel at Anime Expo

The Global Producer: Making Animation Across Borders at Anime Expo 2025

Behind the Scenes of New The Ghost in the Shell at Anime Expo 2025

Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: June

Revisiting the Works of Yasuomi Umetsu

Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: May

The Origin of SHAFT: Hiroshi Wakao

A Quick R.E.P.O. Introduction: Horrifically Fun

Why Anime Fans Should Care About Trump's Movie Tariffs

Webtoon Releases Recap in April 2025

Spring 2025 Anime Gross Production Notes: April

What Does Akiyuki Shinbo Even Do?

All the References in The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Cour 2 Opening

Attack on Titan: The Last Attack and Final Chapters Specials Differences

Seiyu to Yoasobi 2025 Reveals Hosts, Broadcast Details

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